Hasty Treat - Feedback and Criticism
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about feedback and criticism in the web industry.
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Show Notes
4:00 - Getting Feedback
- Don’t assume malice - tone is easily lost in digital communication
- Don’t take it personally
- Evaluate the feedback through the eyes of who it’s coming from
- Look for the truth in the feedback
- Be open to feedback
15:15 - Giving Feedback
- Don’t be negative - phrase your feedback in positives
- Don’t give unrequested feedback
- Explain the why behind your feedback
- Don’t be rude or an asshole
- Use Tools and Standards for Code Quality
- Give an opportunity to improve
- Explain the “why” behind the feedback
- Sandwich criticism with something positive
- When things are heated, try to diffuse the situation
- Give frequent positive feedback
Links
- Tweet from Dan Blundell
- Tweet from Dan vs Code
- Manager Tools’ Feedback Model
- Elon Musk on The Joe Rogan Experience
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | break dancing, soft skills, web development, |
| 0:12.0 | the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is |
| 0:18.1 | Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Tolinsky. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to Syntax and this hasty treat, |
| 0:30.0 | which is the Monday edition of Syntax where we take a small topic and we dive into it over the course of let's say 23.5 to 32.5 minutes or something around there. |
| 0:42.2 | We had some people timing some of our episodes in the past. |
| 0:45.0 | And this episode is all about feedback and criticism, which is a topic that we have to deal with a lot as both creative and technical developers, designers, |
| 0:56.2 | and anything in this industry. My name is Scott Tolinsky and with me as always is West Boss. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello everybody. |
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